Smart Choices

Smart Choices® is a full color, 4-page monthly publication that has reached over 50,000 elementary classrooms across America with easy to use Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) prevention, health promotion and life skills/character education development activities. Included are Teacher's Guide that focuses on an important Health Topic and Life Skill each month. Through repetition and skill-building, Smart Choices® addresses the harmful effects of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) so as to promote healthy decisions and develop life skills/character education throughout the school year (9 issues).

• Integrates activities that reinforce language arts, math, and science skills
• Encourages discussion and communication using cooperative learning exercises
• Provides colorful illustrations and fun-filled puzzles that are appealing to young readers
• Enhances vocabulary development by using creative stories and activities

Smart Choices® Includes:

• 30 Colorful student publications 
• 1 poster 
• 30 stickers 
• Teacher’s Guides (provides teachers with answers to all student exercises, questions to lead to classroom discussions, and several extended activities. Simple and easy to use. 
• Scope & Sequence Guide (in September) that outlines the entire year with monthly Health and life skills topics, which makes for a wonderful tool in preparing lesson plans.

The first issue of Smart Choices will be available in September. The remaining eight issues will be mailed on a monthly basis. Priced per grade, per year. (1 pack = 30 student newsletters, 1 teacher guide, a sheet of 30 stickers, and a classroom poster)

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Gemstones(TM) - Single Copies

Prepare to go on a mining expedition where you will uncover gems that make up your personality. The GEMSTONES ™ personality assessment is fun, user friendly and easy to remember. It will be the most fun you ever had learning about yourself and others. GEMSTONES™ , developed by DREAM, Inc. is a tool for all populations that promotes the understanding of self and others. It identifies six different learning, teaching and social interactive styles.  GEMSTONES™ is a ground-breaking model based on solid research from Hippocrates through Carl Jung and correlated to such respected measures as the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory.

Ideal for:
•    Schools
•    Youth
•    Businesses
•    Community-based organizations
•    Boards
•    Retreats
•    Professional development
•    Conferences

Priced per assessment.

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GemstonesTM (BULK ORDER)

Gemstones(TM)

Prepare to go on a mining expedition where you will uncover gems that make up your personality. The GEMSTONES ™ personality assessment is fun, user friendly and easy to remember. It will be the most fun you ever had learning about yourself and others. GEMSTONES™ , developed by DREAM, Inc. is a tool for all populations that promotes the understanding of self and others. It identifies six different learning, teaching and social interactive styles.  GEMSTONES™ is a ground-breaking model based on solid research from Hippocrates through Carl Jung and correlated to such respected measures as the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory.

Ideal for:
•    Schools
•    Youth
•    Businesses
•    Community-based organizations
•    Boards
•    Retreats
•    Professional development
•    Conferences

Priced per assessment.

NOTE: BULK ORDERS: 1 = a pack of 100. To order multiple packs of 100, add item to cart and change quantity in your shopping cart. To add packs of 100, plus single copies, select the number of packs here, then select single items below.

Tricks of the Trade

This book is a complilation of tips and techniques used by great trainers and facilitators. Complete with innovative exercises, energizers, stories, and other unique tips to engage audiences and assist trainers of all levels, this book is your new training companion.  Add it to your own personal bag of tricks and stand out from all the others! AS SEEN IN DREAM WORKSHOPS.

Big Book Series ClassPak

The Drugless Douglas Big Books Series Grades K-2 Character Education - Life Skills Training - Reading Supplement. Colorful, creative stories told through memorable animal characters teach students the skills necessary to make good decisions to live happier, healthier lives.

Each Big Book ClassPak contains:

• 1 - Big Book (11 x 17 inches) (for the teacher)
• 4 - Student Books (7 x 11 inches) (perfect for smaller hands)
• 1 - Music Sheet - A special song for each story (sung to a familiar tune) helps the students remember the characters and the character trait
• 1 - Audio CD - has the reading of the story on one side and a special song on the other
• 1 - Teacher's Guide - contains a minimum of 7 activities involving large group discussions, learning centers, role-playing, and art that helps to further integrate these important Life Skills
• 1 - Student Activity Sheet/Parent Letter - includes the parent in reinforcing these character traits and encourages the Life Skill development in the home. Photocopyable.

Available in Spanish. Pre and Post Behavior Assessments available upon request. Please call 800-233-7326

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Big Book Series ClassPaks - ALL 9 Titles

ALL 9 ClassPaks Together - Drugless Douglas Big Books Series Grades K-2 Character Education - Life Skills Training - Reading Supplement. Colorful, creative stories told through memorable animal characters teach students the skills necessary to make good decisions to live happier, healthier lives.

• Dexter Duck
• Timothy Turtle
• Bernadette Bear
• Tolliver Turtle
• Bitsy Bird
• Amanda Ant
• Mr. Mahogany
• Harley Hound
• Pewee Frog

Available in Spanish. Pre and Post Behavior Assessments available upon request. Please call 800-233-7326

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Individual Big Books

The Drugless Douglas Big Books Series Sold Separately.

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Individual Student Books - Big Book Series

The Drugless Douglas Big Books Series Individual Student Books Sold Separately.

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The Tales

Grades K-2

A follow-up component to the Drugless Douglass Big Books™ series. The Tales™ are 4-page, 4-color, monthly publications reinforcing the valuable life skills taught in the Big Books.

• Curriculum-infused
• Cost effective; all 9 publications for only $79 per year for a 30 student classpak
• Strength in repetition

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Create-A-Book

Grades K-2

A final component to the Drugless Douglass Big Book™ series or a stand alone book. A 36-page color workbook for classroom or a summer enhancement program.

• 36 pages of language arts skills and activities including critical thinking, vocabulary, consonant and vowel skills, word recognition, sequencing, writing, and rhyming
• Perfect gift from the teacher to the student
• Encourages parent/child interaction

Announce Posters

These compelling posters confront the realities of drug abuse and addiction with memorable images.  Each poster focuses on a particular drug: ecstasy, steroids, wine coolers. Great for discussion starters with youth. Display them in schools, cafeterias, bathrooms, community centers and wherever youth hang out.

Ecstasy Poster: "The last thing I remember was celebrating after the big test. Now I'm waiting on results of another test...thanks to ecstasy."

Steroids Poster: "Josh won't be starting tonight...he decided to start using steroids instead."

Wine Coolers Poster: "Thanks to wine coolers...it will be another year before I can get my driver's license back."

Priced as a 3 pack (one of each poster)